diff --git a/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp b/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
index 5119937ab..55b8c0b4d 100644
--- a/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
+++ b/src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp
@@ -844,6 +844,11 @@ void NodeDB::loadFromDisk()
         0; // Mark the current device state as completely unusable, so that if we fail reading the entire file from
     // disk we will still factoryReset to restore things.
 
+#ifdef ARCH_ESP32
+    if (FSCom.exists("/static/static"))
+        rmDir("/static/static"); // Remove bad static web files bundle from initial 2.5.13 release
+#endif
+
     // static DeviceState scratch; We no longer read into a tempbuf because this structure is 15KB of valuable RAM
     auto state = loadProto(prefFileName, sizeof(meshtastic_DeviceState) + MAX_NUM_NODES_FS * sizeof(meshtastic_NodeInfo),
                            sizeof(meshtastic_DeviceState), &meshtastic_DeviceState_msg, &devicestate);
diff --git a/src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp b/src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp
index f0d137e2c..53b66ff0a 100644
--- a/src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp
+++ b/src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp
@@ -601,8 +601,6 @@ size_t RadioInterface::beginSending(meshtastic_MeshPacket *p)
     // LOG_DEBUG("Send queued packet on mesh (txGood=%d,rxGood=%d,rxBad=%d)", rf95.txGood(), rf95.rxGood(), rf95.rxBad());
     assert(p->which_payload_variant == meshtastic_MeshPacket_encrypted_tag); // It should have already been encoded by now
 
-    lastTxStart = millis();
-
     radioBuffer.header.from = p->from;
     radioBuffer.header.to = p->to;
     radioBuffer.header.id = p->id;
diff --git a/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp b/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp
index 23ef3d6f1..5f82a41ce 100644
--- a/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp
+++ b/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ void RadioLibInterface::onNotify(uint32_t notification)
                     startReceive();      // try receiving this packet, afterwards we'll be trying to transmit again
                     setTransmitDelay();
                 } else {
-                    // Send any outgoing packets we have ready
+                    // Send any outgoing packets we have ready as fast as possible to keep the time between channel scan and
+                    // actual transmission as short as possible
                     meshtastic_MeshPacket *txp = txQueue.dequeue();
                     assert(txp);
                     bool sent = startSend(txp);
@@ -470,7 +471,8 @@ void RadioLibInterface::setStandby()
 /** start an immediate transmit */
 bool RadioLibInterface::startSend(meshtastic_MeshPacket *txp)
 {
-    printPacket("Start low level send", txp);
+    /* NOTE: Minimize the actions before startTransmit() to keep the time between
+             channel scan and actual transmit as low as possible to avoid collisions. */
     if (disabled || !config.lora.tx_enabled) {
         LOG_WARN("Drop Tx packet because LoRa Tx disabled");
         packetPool.release(txp);
@@ -489,6 +491,9 @@ bool RadioLibInterface::startSend(meshtastic_MeshPacket *txp)
             completeSending();
             powerMon->clearState(meshtastic_PowerMon_State_Lora_TXOn); // Transmitter off now
             startReceive(); // Restart receive mode (because startTransmit failed to put us in xmit mode)
+        } else {
+            lastTxStart = millis();
+            printPacket("Started Tx", txp);
         }
 
         // Must be done AFTER, starting transmit, because startTransmit clears (possibly stale) interrupt pending register
diff --git a/src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp b/src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp
index d88f275b9..3ec6ff690 100644
--- a/src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp
@@ -119,12 +119,13 @@ int32_t ExternalNotificationModule::runOnce()
             if (externalTurnedOn[1] + (moduleConfig.external_notification.output_ms ? moduleConfig.external_notification.output_ms
                                                                                     : EXT_NOTIFICATION_MODULE_OUTPUT_MS) <
                 millis()) {
-                setExternalState(0, !getExternal(1));
+                setExternalState(1, !getExternal(1));
             }
             if (externalTurnedOn[2] + (moduleConfig.external_notification.output_ms ? moduleConfig.external_notification.output_ms
                                                                                     : EXT_NOTIFICATION_MODULE_OUTPUT_MS) <
                 millis()) {
-                setExternalState(0, !getExternal(2));
+            LOG_DEBUG("EXTERNAL 2 %d compared to %d", externalTurnedOn[2]+moduleConfig.external_notification.output_ms, millis());
+                setExternalState(2, !getExternal(2));
             }
 #if defined(HAS_NCP5623) || defined(RGBLED_RED) || defined(HAS_NEOPIXEL) || defined(UNPHONE)
             red = (colorState & 4) ? brightnessValues[brightnessIndex] : 0;          // Red enabled on colorState = 4,5,6,7
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index 091ebde9e..bed14bad5 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [VERSION]  
 major = 2
 minor = 5
-build = 13
+build = 14